Potterton Suprima 60

has prob cost more in spare parts than the orginal cost of the boiler

This boiler is totally unreliable. We have a repair contract with the gas board and after endless callouts they are unable to detect what the problem is. I would not recommend this boiler.

to be avoided at all costs 3 pcbs, one gas valve,one fan,and now banging sounds and no hot water.

The only guarantee that Potterton supply with the Suprima range is that they're cheap and they're rubbish. On the positive side, I ran one for about 8 years and, no matter what the fault (no spark, no HW etc), just change out the PCB and it was fixed. You can get a warranted reconditioned board from the lovely people at CET (http://www.cetltd.com/) who repair them and it costs a fraction of the genuine spare part and you can get it next day. Just order the board online and send in the old one by return. Simples!

We've had our Potterton Suprima 60 over 10 years with no problems until now. Plumber has yet to visit but bit of a system timing and control issue going on.

This is a boiler to be avoided. I have had it for less than 2 years. It is now now on its 3rd major fault, 2 of which were dead PCBs.

My installer had bought 2 years warranty from Potterton but despite being in the trade he has terrible problem getting Potterton to replace faulty parts.

Have a look on the internet and you will quickly find out that Potterton boilers are absolutely terrible.

Spare parts will be regularly needed and are very, very expensive.

We have had the Potterton Suprima 60 boiler for 12 years from new, installed in our new house. It has always been noisy and now suffers from the progressive failure of the PCB that is well documented on the web and results in the boiler shutting down ever more frequently. To be fair, the most likely failure is the relays which have a design life of 100,000 operations which over 12 years is a mere 22 cycles a day. There's no doubt that this has been exceeded many times over. I'm spending £15 on new relays, if that does not do the trick, £55 for an exchange PCB on eBay.

I have been using this Potterton Suprima 60 boiler in the last 9 years. Repaired solding joins after the first 2 years, then more solding joins problem. I think this is due to the vibration that the circuit board subjected to. Until recently, I found there are 3 relays no longer functioning. After replacing them, it works fine for now. The relay can be found in RS, part number: 237-5362. It ' s a Omron G6RN type.

I recently bought this house and this Potterton Suprima 60 was the boiler that was at the house, It has been trouble from day one, breaking down on a regular basis. As i said above in the six months since we moved in, the PCB & gas valve have been replaced and now another problem has left us without heat! Are boilers no longer built to last?!

I have a Suprima 60 which I inherited with my house. But I hope I might be able to put some of you out of your misery, even if you have the Suprima 50 model for example; My plumber advised that NOT servicing this boiler was the the safest approach and to be fair mine worked fine for 5 years but then conked out. The repair was incredibly simple if you are competent at DIY and soldering: After ISOLATING THE MAINS ELECTRICITY, I took out the circuit board (labelling everything as I unplugged it) and simply used a magnifying glass to find any solder joint that look like it might have a hairline crack in it, and heated it up to re-set the joint. I then reinstalled the circuit board.It has been working for 2 years now without a problem. The symptoms were that it would begin to fire, but once warm would start to "trip out" into a warning mode with a red light flashing. A sharp whack initially resolved the issue and this was really the tell-tale sign of a loose connection somewhere.Clearly I wont buy a potterton myself and would not encourage anyone who is not professionally trained to undertake the repair I made.